Cardiff raise sights

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EVERYTHING AT CARDIFF CITY SEEMS geared around becoming a top-flight club. There is the grand plan for a new £100 million, 30,000-capacity stadium, which Sam Hammam, the chairman, promises will be ready for the 2006-07 season. Yet after this victory against Norwich City, the first division leaders, on Saturday, Premiership football could be closer than that.

Hammam was on the pitch at half-time to sign the stadium development plan and preach to the Cardiff faithful that the club must “get to the Premier League and stay there”. It may be a more desperate plea than it seemed. This week, there